1. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 Global utilities for the 21st century Global utilities for the 21st century NGG GENERATION G R I D S NEXT Architecture, of the next generation Grid Enabling application technologies Design and Development Franco Accordino DG Information Society and Media Grid Technologies http://www.cordis.lu/ist/grids

2. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 2 Summary Grid Research and Deployment in FP6 Grid Research and Deployment in FP6 Emerging Trends in ICT Emerging Trends in ICT Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities European Grid strategy European Grid strategy Conclusions Conclusions

3. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 3 Grid Research and Deployment in FP6 Grid Technologies Architecture, design and development of the next generation Grid Enabling application technologies Industrial and business applications Research Infrastructures Research Infrastructures Deployment of specific high performance Grids Deployment of high-capacity and high-speed communi- cations network - GEANT Research & Development Deployment Application-oriented Strategic Objectives e.g. eBusiness, eGov, eWork, eHealth, risks management Technology-oriented strategic objectives e.g. semantic web, software and services R&D 200 M RI 125 M (IST)

4. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 4 FP6 Grid Technologies Projects – Calls 2, 3, 5 Datamining Grid OntoGrid InteliGrid K-WF Grid CoreGRID six virtual laboratories UniGridsHPC4U Provenance GridCoordGrid@Asia NextGRID service architecture Akogrimo mobile services SIMDAT industrial simulations data, knowledge, semantics, mining KnowArc Chemomen tum A-WareSorma platforms, user environments Specific support actionIntegrated projectNetwork of excellenceSpecific targeted research project g-EclipseGrediaGridComp QosCosGrid Grid4all AssessGrid GridTrust trust, security Grid services, business models ArguGrid Edutain@ Grid GridEcon Nessi-Grid Challengers Degree BREIN agents & semantics XtreemOS Linux based Grid operating system supporting the NESSI ETP & Grid community BeinGrid business experiments PORTFOLIO

5. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 5 e Infrastructure - Strategic building blocks GÉANT. INFRASTRUCTURE GRID. INFRASTRUCTURE eInfrastructure EGEE production quality grid, 20000 CPUs, ~4PB storage, training, 27 countries, 70 partners, HEP, Biomed., int. links (32 M - CERN) GÉANT Pan-European Research Network, IPv6 enabled (93 M - DANTE) DEISA grid of 6 supercomputers networked at 1 Gbps, focus on global filing systems,>30 Tflop/s, all user communit. (15M - CNRS). OMII-Europe

6. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 6 Flexible control and sharing of global resources Dynamic, multi-domain virtual organisations Emerging Trends in Grids and RI Resources can be of any information type (computing, storage, networking, etc) Resources can be distributed world-wide Access to them is provided in a secure, coordinated, seamless, dynamic and inexpensive way

7. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 7 Emerging Trends in ICT Mass spread of ambient systems of ICT objects pervading all aspects of business and life Mass spread of ambient systems of ICT objects pervading all aspects of business and life Explosion of users and things connected through Internet Explosion of users and things connected through Internet Need for more flexibility in private and public ICT infrastructures Need for more flexibility in private and public ICT infrastructures Paradigm shift from product selling to service provision Paradigm shift from product selling to service provision OSS as a new production paradigm and business model OSS as a new production paradigm and business model

8. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 8 building on existing industry practices, and emerging technologies (r)evolution of concepts from Web, Grid & Knowledge technologies support ecosystems that promote collaboration and self-organization towards increased agility, lower TCO, broader availability of services for all empowering service providers, integrators and end-consumers of ICT as safe, ease und ubiquitous as existing utilities such as electricity or water A flexible, powerful and cost-efficient way of building, operating and evolving IT intensive solutions for business, science and society. Next Generation Grids Report 2005: Future for European Grids: GRIDs and Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities – Vision and Research Directions 2010 and Beyond, December 2006 (NGG3) Service-Oriented Knowledge Utility The primary difference to earlier approaches is a switch from a prescribed layered view to a multi-dimensional mesh of concepts, applying the same mechanisms along each dimension across the traditional layers.

9. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 9 A utility is a directly and immediately useable service with established functionality, performance and dependability, illustrating the emphasis on user needs and issues such as trust Services are knowledge- assisted (semantic) to facilitate automation and advanced functionality, the knowledge aspect reinforced by the emphasis on delivering high level services to the user Service-Oriented Knowledge Utility The architecture comprises services which may be instantiated and assembled dynamically, hence the structure, behaviour and location of software is changing at run-time

10. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 10 Reliable Knowledge-aware Societal Autonomic Stateful Service Utility Internet, Web and Web Services Methodologies Service Oriented Architecture Grid Stateful Service Utility Agent Technologies Autonomic Stateful Service Utility Semantics Societal Autonomic Stateful Service Utility Heuristics Knowledge-aware Societal Autonomic Stateful Service Utility Formal Languages Service Oriented Knowledge Utility The services (r)evolution

11. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 11 Research Topics Next Generation Grids Adaptability, Scalability, Dependability Network-centric Grid Operation Systems Mobile and embedded Grids NGG3: Future for European Grids: GRIDs and Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities – Vision and Research Directions 2010 and Beyond, December 2006 Vision and Research Directions 2010 and Beyond, December 2006 Research Topics Driving Scenarios Trust and Security in Virtual Organizations Lifecycle Management Mastering Grid Complexity Raising the Level of Abstraction Pervasiveness, Context Awareness of Services Semantic Technologies Human Factors and Societal Issues Business/Enterprise –Manufacturing/Industrial Crisis Management – Pro-active PDA – End User

12. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 12 Network-Centric Operating Systems +Pervasive +Mobile +Heterogeneous +Dynamic +… +Abstraction +Self-* +Virtualisation +Simplification +… The computing and knowledge capabilities of the Information Society are escaping from the bottle to pervade our everyday lives. Grids will orchestrate this immense power in the same way that Operating Systems did in the past 30 years for the capabilities in-the-box Trade-offs to ensure: interoperability, scalability, performance, security, QoS, easy of use-program-install-configure-upgrade, decreasing TCO, … … enabling scalable, dynamic, cross-domain Virtual Organizations

13. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 13 Realising the NGG/SOKU vision Developing new methods, tools, systems and services Developing new methods, tools, systems and services Advance excellence and know-how Advance excellence and know-how Long-term and business-driven R&D Long-term and business-driven R&D Integration – structuring – standardisation Integration – structuring – standardisation Coordination of National Programmes Coordination of National Programmes Opening-up of National Programmes Opening-up of National Programmes International cooperation International cooperation Build critical mass Build critical mass Derive standardisation strategy Derive standardisation strategy Research & Development Technology Platform European Research Area Leadership Leadership Competitiveness Competitiveness Addressing standardization, regulation, … Addressing standardization, regulation, … Innovation framework to increase adoption Innovation framework to increase adoption Aligning business and research agendas Aligning business and research agendas

14. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 14 Networked European Software and Services Initiative launched in Brussels on 7 September 2005 www.nessi-europe.com Mission: Develop a visionary strategy for Software, Grids and Services driven by a common European Research Agenda where innovation and business strengths are reinforced A European Technology Platform for SW, Grids & e-Services

15. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 15 Conclusions Grid Research and Deployment programmes Grid Research and Deployment programmes Consistent project portfolio: 130ME + 200ME Long-term research + Industry orientation Global Service Oriented Knowledge Utility Global Service Oriented Knowledge Utility Building on SOA/Grids/Semantic Web The backbone of the future economy & society Strengthening EU competitiveness in Grids, SW & Services Strengthening EU competitiveness in Grids, SW & Services Exploiting inter-sector dynamics Building on a coherent R&D agenda: NESSI & NGG/SOKU Capitalising on the highly innovative potentials of EU SMEs Building on the emergence of Open Source Making Europe influential in developing related standards Making Europe influential in developing related standards The future of the Grid is tightly linked to the future of the Web and Internet The future of the Grid is tightly linked to the future of the Web and Internet

16. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 16 Further Info on Grid Research Brochure: Building Grids for Europe Brochure: Building Grids for Europe FP6 Grid Project Fact Sheets, FP5 Grid Project Achievements NGG Expert Group Reports NGG Expert Group Reports Next Generation Grid(s) – European Grid Research 2005 - 2010, 2003 Next Generation Grids 2 – Requirements and Options for European Grids Research 2005–2010 and beyond, August 2004 Next Generation Grids 3 – Grids and service oriented knowledge utilities: vision 2010 and beyond, publication expected February 2006 NESSI: http://www.nesi-europe.com NESSI: http://www.nesi-europe.com www.cordis.lu/ist/grids www.cordis.lu/ist/grids and more: www.cordis.lu/ist/grids www.cordis.lu/ist/grids

17. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 17 FP7 Specific Programmes Cooperation: 44735 m (61%) Ideas: 11942 m (16%) People: 7178 m (10%) Capacities: 7536 m (10%) JRC: 1824 m (3%) Commissions Proposals of 6 April 2005

18. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 18 Cooperation – Collaborative Research – Themes Health: 8373 m (18%) Food, agri, biotech: 2472 m (6%) ICT: 12756 m (28.5%) Nano, materials, production: 4865 m (11%) Energy: 2951 m (7%) Environment: 2552 m (6%) Transport: 5981 m (13%) Socio-econ research: 798 m (2%) Space and security: 3987 m (9%) Commissions Proposals of 6 April 2005

19. World Wide Web Conference 2006 - 25 May 2006 Global utilities for the 21st century Franco Accordino – DG INFSO/F2 19 FP7 Capacities – Research Capacity – 6 Parts Research infrastructures: 3987 m (54%) Research for benefit of SMEs: 1914 m (25%) Regions of knowledge: 160 m (2%) Research potential: 558 m (7%) Science in society: 558 mé (7%) Intl cooperation: 359 m (5%) Commissions Proposals of 6 April 2005